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To: marron; Irisshlass
I would challenge him to go follow one of her workers around for a few days. See what they see and do what they do alongside them. Then get back to me.

On the Amazon page for Hitchen's book on Mother Teresa, there are some comments from people who actually did work with her. They seem to agree with Hitchens.

Particularly disturbing is that money sent to help sick children under the care of Mother Teresa was diverted for other uses. She had access to vast amounts of funds but apparently chose not to spend the money on even modestly improved medical facilities that would actually have saved the lives of the people she was caring for.

31 posted on 11/03/2009 1:19:29 PM PST by wideminded
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To: wideminded

So what did she spend it on?


39 posted on 11/03/2009 1:33:22 PM PST by AliVeritas (Breaking the law, breaking the law; Breaking the law, breaking the law. Judas Priest)
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To: wideminded
Yeah I see a lot of knee jerk reactions from conservatives on this thread. Conservatives are supposed to get the facts and make an informed decision. Bill Donohue doesn't defend MT against Hitchens, but instead uses argumentum ad populum logical fallacy to defend her:
a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges, "If many believe so, it is so." This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people, argument by consensus, authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy, and in Latin by the names argumentum ad populum ("appeal to the people"), argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans").

40 posted on 11/03/2009 1:33:50 PM PST by Sir Gawain
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To: wideminded
She never solicited money; she never went for foundation grants or government funds; she never sent out so much as a mass fundraising letter; and when people gave her money (some gave her a lot) she donated almost all of it, almost immediately, to the general fund of an organization that DOES fund hospitals, clinics, and schools around the world: the Catholic Church.

Many of Mother T's critics are perplexed or angry that she wasn't what they wanted her to be and what she never claimed to be: a medical administrator. When people gave her an (unsolicited) donation, she brushed her hands free of it as rapidly as she could.

Hitch is aghast, not because she "misused" the money, but because she literally did not keep it.

One of Hitchens' principal informants was the head of the Communist Party in Calcutta, who hated Mother T. because the publicity (which she did not seek, but which followed her after the Muggeridge documentary) focused so much on the misery in the streets.

She herself talked little about Calcutta and little about herself or her work. She didn't even recruit an army of volunteers. She told people hundreds of times, "Find your own Calcutta."

43 posted on 11/03/2009 1:38:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. " George Orwell)
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